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Ralph Damiano
Role	Developer of Stick Nodes
Location	Connecticut, USA
Birthday	February 3, 1991
Twitter	FTLRalph
Youtube	FTLRalph
Other Websites	My portfolio, My dev-blog
Favorite color	#0096FF
Favorite number	√2
Favorite animated show	Insert Jojo reference here. Also the Dragon Ball series for sure because that's what started it all. My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan, Dr. Stone too. Non-anime (kinda) however, the Avatar series (ATLA and Korra) too.
Favorite non-animated show	Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Game of Thrones. House gets an honorable mention.
Favorite movie	Not much of a movie person, idk. I did force myself to watch the Marvel movies and they weren't bad to be honest so, yeah, Endgame I guess.
Favorite video game	I don't play much of anything so in terms of nostalgia there's Tomba 1 and 2, Spyro, Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter among others. The original Genesis Sonic games are up there too.
Favorite food	Orange chicken but, like, not the authentic kind. More like the sugar-chicken version where it just rots your teeth away as you eat it.
Ralph started making Stick Nodes one day because he was bored. He grew up practically addicted to a stickfigure-animation program called Pivot which sparked his interest in both animation and game development. Eventually he got into Flash animation and Flash game development. He released quite a few games into the Flash gaming community, check out his portfolio for links. Once mobile devices started taking over, he moved over to attempt Android games. After a few failed attempts, he released Plunder Peril - a quick 2-3 week project that was meant as Android-development practice. After Plunder Peril, Ralph began work on Stick Nodes and in August 2014, Stick Nodes was released on Android with the iOS version following in November. Stick Nodes is built in Java with the LibGDX framework and uses RoboVM to port to iOS. Fast forward to March 2020 when he was revising this page and he honestly can't believe Stick Nodes is still going so strong. Onward to world domination... Fast forward again to August 2023 and really, I haven't been cancelled yet?

Sean Byrnes
Role	Site administrator, comedic relief
Location	NSW, Australia
Birthday	January 26, 1992
Twitter	S_Byrnes
Youtube	Sean Byrnes
Other Websites	None lol
Favorite color	Yellow.
Favorite number	42
Favorite animated show	Family Guy, American Dad and, like Ralph, Dragon Ball.
Favorite non-animated show	The Big Bang Theory, Limitless, Criminal Minds & The Flash.
Favorite movie	The Bucket List, Zombie Land & The Matrix.
Favorite video game	The latest Call of Duty, Project Cars, Battlefield & Assassins Creed.
Favorite food	Pancakes, KFC & Marinated Slow Cooked Roast Beef.
Sean is the site administrator and creator of the stickfigure submission system as well as a majority of the DBZ stickfigures. He also has a funny accent. At around age 12 he discovered Pivot, ended up on Droidz.org looking for stickfigures to use in his animations, got fairly good after about 2 years. He decided to make a website to host his animations on after having been on the forums for a long time. That's what got him into webdesign since the first iteration of his website was a terrible looking flash-based thing that at the time he thought was the best thing out. After a while he realized how stupid it looked and behaved. So he looked into HTML and CSS, got it looking slightly better but it wasn't until he found WordPress that it started looking decent. After that he went off the grid for a bit, got his Cert IV in IT and Webdesign, cemented his understanding of the internet protocols. Lately he's been helping out around the Stick Nodes community and has been managing Animation Alpha. He's also been looking into game development and has begun a project that he hopes to finish one day soon, he can't really reveal anything about it but it's for mobile devices and will be a 2D sidescroller.

AirBirb

Yo, not sure if this is the proper place to ask, and if so, point me where, but I’ve got a problem:
Whenever I use a specific stick and save it in an animation, it works fine for a couple of days of reopening the project and then all of a sudden, when I go to open it after that timeframe, it always crashes the app. I believe it is the aforementioned specific stick causing the problem, as in both instances of this happening to me, it always crashes whenever the stick is on screen, even when I just scroll through the frames to view the frame it first appears in. I don’t know the reason why it does this, nor why it only does this after being saved in a project for a period of time (when I first insert the stick into an animation, no problems are present whatsoever) I also ask if there is any way to save my animation or if I will just have to scrap it. Of course, if it is necessary, I will reveal the stick’s name.

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Ralph (Developer)

Yare yare daze

This seems like it was the issue that was first introduced in 2.0.0 where people were having problems playing/opening projects (I found out because of a stickfigure that caused a bug and crashed). Only for some devices though.

But I fixed it in 2.0.1. We’re on 2.0.3 now, are you updated?

I am up to date and was when I created my 2nd project, I wasn’t the first time I encountered it but I was still at 2.0.1 and not 2.0.0. However, the problem still occurs.

Führer Bio Animations

My cousin, Sariness, was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. She has 2 weeks left to live. SenseiMo himself is making a collab in her name. She’s getting lots of support. Anyone up to help?

Wow I’m really sorry to hear that, thoughts and prayers with you guys I hope everything goes as well as possible.

Has the collab been announced yet https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh_FQwAdP-HGpCdUsD_hSgg/videos

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DmLan

The old, drunk Christmas tree.

Please stand strong, she has all my support.

Ali Anim8sSpidöh man is love spidöh is life dmlan gets a knife

Im 100% supporting!!

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OnehighjumpEw. Take that Niche pornography away form me.

http://pa1.narvii.com/5728/ee5528314608a5a136d51ddd16e33cb16a389e4d_hq.gif

The collab just got announced

I see, it was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rcxVNadi5w

“this video was removed by the user”.

What.

That was the announcement video, so I assume he removed it since it’s done being announced.

I don’t want to bring this up all the time I’m sure you want to “get away” from it when you come online here. But I just want to say sorry again about what you and your family are going through.

But yeah, you know, we’ll be here with dank memes and whatnot to provide some lols.

Mephistoi wanna die

That’s long. *insert that’s what she said overused meme.”

RandomnessOfFury

Ralph I tried to sign up for the stick nodes community thing but someone used my username and my Gmail! I dunno what to do, I really want to join!

Well now you need to activate from the email you’re sent.

But if it doesn’t work I can do it manually, what’s your username (RandomnessOfFury doesn’t come up)?

BenAnimationsMy opinion doesn't matter... trust me.

Hey Ralph, I was wondering how long on average does it take for a stickfigure that you summit to show up on the stickfigures page?

I appoligize, I meant to say submit

Right now, about 10-14 days.

I joined The Ralph and Sean group
#Thuglief

WHAT. That’s like eating both the chocolate and vanilla sides of a black and white cookie.

…You’re not supposed to do that.

Then why buy the whole thing if you’re gonna eat one side?

extreme racism

Matthew

Now I know you probably won’t do this, but please bring the old sticknodes layout back! Rotating is extremely hard to do and so is knowing where everything is.

Everything is pretty much where it’s always been. Just tap a stickfigure to see Stickfigure Tools, tap a frame for Frame Tools, camera for Camera Tools, textfield for Textfield Tools – it’s much more intuitive and fast (once you get used to it of course, but that’s how everything is).

As for rotating, I’ll give you that. I’m going to try to make the rotation knob better in the next update.